Contact Bette Finn, your ECE Subject Librarian, at email bette.finn@library.gatech.edu
for in-depth and quickone-on-one assistance searching the
Library's databases, for course webguides, and for customized group
classes in your lab, classroom, or in the Library's classroom

Current Georgia Tech undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty/staff
members, should request individual print journal articles and conference
papers via ILLiad.
This applies to both papers owned by the GT Library and also to papers
obtained through Interlibrary Loan.

Note: "OPTION 1" GIL Express" (borrow
books from University System of Georgia libraries). NOTE: Due to its migration
to a new library management system, on December 1, 2015 the Georgia Tech
Library suspended the GIL Express direct-requesting service. Instead, all
requests from University System of Georgia libraries will go through Interlibrary
Loan (ILLiad); this change will remain in place until 2017.

Course Reserves.
Professors can place books (textbooks, recommended readings etc.) on Course
Reserves, to make them available to all students in their classes. The
Professor can request that books be placed on Course Reserves using the
forms on the Course
Reserves website ("Submitting Course Reserves").

If the book you need is already checked-out, you can click on "Request"
in the Library Catalog record and fill out an ILLiad book request form.
You can also contact the Library Services Desk (1st floor west, 404-894-4530)
and request that the book be Recalled.
All items can be subject to recall; the borrower is guaranteed 21 total
days with items; recalled items which are needed for Course Reserves must
be returned immediately.Check holdings (years, volumes) of both print ("Get
It") and electronic full text ("View Online" or "View It").
Online and print holdings can be in separate records or can be within the
same one record.

SAE's on-line mobility databases are available for a fee through an on-line
database service (1906 - ). The fee
based SAE Global Mobility Bibliographic Database (1MOBILITY) is a bibliographic
database that contains information on worldwide literature of technologies
for self-propelled vehicles. Vehicles include those for land, sea, air,
and space. Contact
bette.finn@library.gatech.edu
for additional information. Preliminary "title only" searches can often
be provided for free to Georgia Tech students and faculty.

Web of Science
"All Databases" combines BIOSIS, Web of Science Core
Collection (Science Citation Index), Medline, Derwent Innovations (patents),
and other Web of Science databases together; choose "All Databases"
from the drop down menu at the top of the screen.

If the book you need is already checked-out, you can click on "Request"
in the Library Catalog record and fill out an ILLiad book request form.
You can also contact the Library Services Desk (1st floor west, 404-894-4530)
and request that the book be Recalled.
All items can be subject to recall; the borrower is guaranteed 21 total
days with items; recalled items which are needed for Course Reserves must
be returned immediately.

Check holdings (years, volumes) of both print ("Get It") and electronic
full text ("View Online" or "View It"). Online and print holdings
can be in separate records or can be within the same one record.

Complex and efficient searches using Boolean operators, proximity operators
and manipulation of previous search statements are available in the STN
Chemical Abstracts 1907+ database. Contact Bette Finn, bette.finn@library.gatech.edu.
Preliminary "title only" searches can often be provided for free to Georgia
Tech students and faculty.

Science Citation
Index (1900 to present). Indexes many chemical literature
publications. Part of Web
of Science Core Collection. Thomson Reuters/ISI. Web of Science's
Science
Citation Index indexes major science and technology journals, including
major chemistry journals. Web of Science Core Collection includes
Current Chemical Reactions (1985-present; includes Institut National de
la Propriete Industrielle structure data back to 1840) and Index Chemicus
(1993-present).

Web of Science
"All Databases" combines BIOSIS, Web of Science Core Collection
(Science Citation Index), Medline, Derwent Innovations (patents), and other
Web of Science databases together; choose "All Databases" from the
drop down menu at the top of the screen.

Web of Science provides access to research literature through standard
access points and to cited references (bibliographies, footnotes) published
with a scholarly paper. A tutorial is available. Use the first
author named in the bibliography reference or footnote. Use
the author index browse icon to locate variations.

"Cited Reference Search." Use "first author" name. "Cited Author"
(with and without middle initial). If too many records, use "Current
Limits" -- "Timespan" before using "Cited Year(s)" -- conferences can be
held one year and published 1-3 years later. Avoidusing
"Cited Work" search box. Review all screens, looking for all possible
title variations. Watch for typographical errors -- incorrect page
numbers, volume numbers, years etc. Click on "Finish Search"
then "Output Records" -- "Records _ to _" then Print, Email or Save To.

Cited reference searching locates articles that have cited a previously
published work. Through a cited reference search, one can determine how
a known idea or innovation has been confirmed, applied, improved, extended,
or corrected. Steps for Cited Reference Search: (1) Enter the name of a
Cited Author (FIRST AUTHOR). Then click Search. (2) If you too many hits
are retrieved, return to the form "Limit to Timespan." If necessay
use Cited Year. (3) After clicking Search, note references from the citation
index that contain the cited author/cited work data entered. Look for variants;
papers are sometimes cited incorrectly. (4) Select reference(s) from
the citation index, and then click Finish Search. Clicking on "Finish
Search" will retrieve records of articles that cite the references selected
from the citation index. Tips: Enter the name of the first author
of a multi-authored article or book. Try doing the cited reference lookup
without entering a Cited Year in order to retrieve variations of the same
cited reference.

The Citation Index is a useful way to find articles that cite classic references.
The "classic reference" can be of any date and from any source, such as
patents, dissertations, books, conference paper, technical reports, or
from journal articles. The Citation Index is also used by scientists
and engineers to determine whether their work has been applied or criticized
by others.

Author names. Web of Science captures full author names as they are
listed in original records. This feature is not available for records
prior to 2006. The full author names will not be retrospective (old records
will remain author initials only). Browse using the author index icon to
find name variations (initials only; full first name; with and without
middle initial; one or no spaces between initials).

Web of Science
"All Databases" combines BIOSIS, Web of Science Core Collection
(Science Citation Index), Medline, Derwent Innovations (patents), and other
Thomson Reuters databases together; choose "All Databases" from
the drop down menu at the top of the screen. Includes tutorials.

Journal Citation
Reports (Thomson
Reuters/ISI). InCites Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is comprised of the
Science Edition and the Social Sciences Edition. This resource allows you
to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over scholarly
and technical journals. InCites Journal Citation Reports is part of Thomson
Reuters/ISI Web of Science which also includes the Essential Science Indicators
(top row).

Scopus.
"Cited By" (since 1996). Search BOTH Library subscription
databases Web of
Scienceand Scopus
to obtain a complete list of cited references (titles that cite a specific
document). If a document has been cited in Scopus, the titles of the citing
documents appear in a Cited by (since 1996) box on the Document details
page. A document may be cited in Scopus since 1996. The Scopus "Citation
Overview" includes the number of times the documents were cited, by publication
year. Scopus Citation Overview: Citations received since 1996. Can
"Exclude from citation overview": "Self citations of selected author" or
"Self citations of all authors". Scopus "Author search" --"Last name" ;
"Initials or First Name" (can "Show exact matches only"). Check box of
possible author names; Show documents or View citation overview "Document
search" drop down menu "References". When searching the REF field
, can specify if you want all of your search terms to be found in the same
reference -REF(darwin 1859).

Full text. Cited references searched in the "References" field in
Elsevier "In Press/Corrected Proof" journal articles will appear in ScienceDirect,
before they are formally published and then indexed by Web
of Science's Science Citation Index. Other full text searchable databases
may search bibliographic references at the end of "full text" articles
-- such as IEEE
Xplore("Cited by IEEE" ; Search/Advanced "Full Text ...
All Fields" or view "AbstractPlus" --"Citing Documents"), U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office "Referenced
By" patent numbers,
PROLA (APS; "Cited Author"), SPIN (physics "Cited Author"), OpticsInfobase,
IOP, etc.

ABI/Inform Complete
covers 1971+ and full text from 1991+ (about half full text) and selective
coverage for 1905-1985. Index to U.S. and international journals covering
all aspect of business and management. ProQuest database (multiple databases
can be searched at one time). Periodical articles (3000 full-text).
Summaries link to Hoover's company profiles (click on "i" icon). Has Wall
Street Journal full-text.

Reference
USA is one of the Library's
company directories. Company directory of over 13 million U.S.
businesses. Create customized lists ("Data Summary") by combining geographical,
size of business and line of business variables ("Custom Search"). Geographical
search options are: zip code, MSA, county, city, state and area code. Size
of business search options are: sales volume and number of employees. Line
of business search options are: yellow page heading and SIC code. Can also
search
directly by company name or ticker symbol. Each record also contains contact
name(s).

MacRAE's Blue Book http://www.macraesbluebook.com/
is an industrial directory sourcing tool for North American industrial
products. Search by company or product. American industrial directory since
1893.

FedBizOpps is a list of
U.S. Federal Government procurement invitations, contract awards, subcontracting
leads, and foreign business opportunities published each business day.
FedBizOpps
website.
FBO
Vendor
Guide "Search Field Tips" ; "Search Agents" or "Search Agent
Emails" (Advanced searches can be saved as "search agents" that can be
scheduled for recurring exploration, or executed on an ad hoc basis') approximately
page 54, section 4.9 or 4.10. Search: "Active Documents"; "Archived Documents"
(up to Last 365 Days); or "Both." FedBizOpps replaces Commerce Business
Daily

ProQuest Dissertations
and Theses covers Ph.D. dissertations accepted at accredited U.S.
institutions since 1861+ (selected 1639+). In-depth, detailed abstracts.
It selectively covers masters theses, Canadian dissertations, and British
and other European dissertations. The ProQuest
Dissertations and Theses database is the world's most comprehensive
collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning
from 1861 to the present day and offering a large number of full text
records for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full
text for works written prior to 1997. The full range of academic subjects
is found in this database. Abstracts for doctoral dissertations begin July
1980, and masters theses begin spring 1988. Simple bibliographic citations
are available for a few selected dissertations dating from 1637. Updated
monthly. Abstracts earlier than July 1980 are not available online - for
detailed abstracts before 1980 see Dissertation Abstracts International
- microfilm. Many theses and dissertations that are not full text in
this database can be borrowed
through interlibrary loan.

To search only the bibliographic fields (not the full text fields) in the
ProQuest
Dissertations and Theses database, limit to ALL using the drop down
menu or to a specific field (all(optoelectric*) or ti,su("electro-optics"
or electrooptic*)). Note that a few records indicate "This graduate work
has been published as open access" ("Download PDF" icon).

Search multiple ProQuest databases at one time, removing
duplicate records. Row at the top of the screen, under ProQuest.
Click on "Change Databases" [far right] Check only relevant databases,
such as NTIS, Aerospace Database, GeoRef, Materials Research, ProQuest
Dissertations and Theses A&I, etc. Click on "Use selected databases".

All Georgia Tech theses and dissertations are available electronically
through the Georgia Tech SMARTech
repository
collection. In 2017, the Library began to add Georgia Tech theses and dissertations
to the GT
Catalog as soon as they are added to the SMARTech repository. After
conducting an Advanced Search GT
Catalog search, Catalog records can be limited to "GT Theses &
Dissertations" using the "Search Scope" drop-down menu.

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) is now Institution of
Engineering and Technology (IET).

The IEEE Xplore full image database contains the following collections:
IEEE (Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) journals, transactions,
letters, and magazines from January 1988 with select content back to 1893.
IET/IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers/Institution of Engineering
and Technology) journals, letters, and magazines with select content back
to 1965. IEEE conference proceedings from January 1988 with select
content back to 1953. IET/IEE conference proceedings back to 1988.
IEEE technical standards and specifications, including superseded standards
but excluding draft standards, dating from January 1948. Educational courses
in an interactive format. Selected IEEE-Wiley eBooks from 1974.

IEEE Xplore includes one-hour long interactive educationalonline
courses developed by leading experts recognized in their field.

Some joint publications may not be in IEEE Xplore. Some full text searching
is possible in IEEE Xplore.

GPO Monthly Catalog. Directory of current and past publications from the
U.S. Government Printing Office. GPO
Online
July 1976- Galileo; print begins in 1907/08; multiple call numbers,
such as GP3.8: and Z1223 .A181x. GPO Access.

MathSciNet.
Mathematical Reviews' Web gateway to MathSciNet (1940 to date); updated
daily. MathSci contains evaluative reviews and abstracts of the international
research literature in mathematics, computer science, statistics, simulation/modelling,
econometrics, and applications in areas such as physics, engineering, biology,
and information systems. It has seven subfiles online. "Quick
Links" "Databases"

Patents

Derwent Innovations
Index1963 to present. Index to U.S.
and foreign patents; Thomson Reuters. Library subscription database.
Facilitates rapid, precise patent searching and merges the value-added
patent information from Derwent World Patents Index with the patent
citation information from Derwent Patent Citation Index. Conduct
powerful patent and citation searches of inventions in chemical, electrical,
electronic, and mechanical engineering. Use additional descriptive information
and coding to quickly grasp a patent's significance and its relationship
to other patents. Tutorial available. Part of Web of Science.
To pull up records by U.S. patent number, search the patent number in the
Patent Number field (drop down menu, using "Basic Search") as USpatent
number*. The USPTO patent database
and the Derwent Innovations Index may use different patent titles. The
Derwent Innovations Index database may not include all of the inventor
names in their database record.The "All Databases" option includes the
Derwent Innovations Index.

Patents are a valuable source of information. Two main reasons are:
1. if you are developing a new machine, process, product, chemical
substance, etc, it is important to be sure that you are not infringing
on someone else's legal rights (even if you do not plan to get a patent
yourself).--Therefore, you need to be sure that no one else has a patent
on the invention. 2. the patent document can give you valuable
information about other people's inventions, which you could use in the
development of your product. The invention cannot have been publicly
described or sold for more than one year before the patent application
is submitted.--Therefore, the patent document is often the first place
an invention is described. Patents can be useful for cutting edge technology.
Also the patent must be written in enough detail that another person, familiar
with that area, could reproduce the invention. United
States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Home Page. General
Information Concerning Patents USPTO.

U.S. Patent Databases.

USPTO Patent Database.
Full
Page Images 1790 to present. Full text is searchable back to
1976.
The USPTO Web Patent Database
is now searchable in five year blocks back to 1976, and in one additional
block covering the years 1790-1975. The full text of a patent includes
all bibliographic data, such as the inventor's name, the patent's title,
and the assignee's name, as well as the abstract, the full description
of the invention, and the claims; all of the words (text) in the patent
are searchable from 1976 to present. Current US classifications have
been added to the Full Text Database in place of issue classifications.
However, the 1790-1975 block contains
only patent numbers
and current U.S. Classifications, and thus will produce search results
(hits) in only those two fields. Remember to change the year ("Select
years") on the search screen.

PubWEST patent
database. Includes full text of most patents 1971+, USOCR (Optical
Character Recognition scan) for patent copies 1920-1970 and also 1971-1976
that are missing from the USPAT file, and other patent files.

Class Subclass Searching. Although searching by keywords can be easier
than searching by classes and subclasses, classification searches will
often retrieve patents that are right on target. Searching by classification
is more thorough than searching by keywords. Keyword searches
will miss relevant patents and will also retrieve irrelevant patents.

GeoRef
(1785 to present). ProQuest. Geoscience literature of the world,
including geophysics and geochemistry. Geoscience journal articles, books,
maps, conference papers, reports and theses. North America from 1785 to
the present and the geological sciences of the rest of the world from 1933
to the present. Search multiple ProQuest databases
at one time, removing duplicate records; "Change databases" top
right of screen, then "Use selected databases" after checking relevant
databases. (Aerospace Database, NTIS, Materials Research, etc.). Search
hints. Search
example.

Public
Policy and other Social Sciences

PAIS. Public
Affairs Information Service 1915+ Search multiple
ProQuest databases at one time, removing duplicate records; "Change
databases" top right of screen, then "Use selected databases" after checking
relevant databases.

Standards and specifications are documents that stipulate or recommend
minimum and/or optimal levels of performance, quality, conditions and procedures
for production, evaluation, distribution, and use of materials, products,
and services. Standards can be set by law. Others are voluntary and
are established by societies with particular interest in the field in question.
Specifications are usually narrower in scope than standards.

Code
of Federal Regulations codifies federal government rules and regulations.
These are set by law and cover a very wide range of subjects, including:
agriculture, energy, financial practices, aerospace, commerce, food and
drugs, housing and urban development, national defense, education, environmental
protection, public health, telecommunications, transportation, etc.
The Rules and Regulations section of the Federal
Register contains final rules and regulations; most rules are keyed
to and codified in the Code
of Federal Regulations.

International Telecommunication Union standards produced by the Telecommunication
Standardization Sector (ITU-T)

National Institute for Standards and Technology
(NIST)
(formerly National Bureau of Standards (NBS)) develops national standards
to ensure product reliability, to promote public health and safety, to
improve the environment, to maintain the national measurement system, etc.
One large set of NIST standards are the Federal Information Processing
Standards (FIPS) which deal with computer hardware, software, data representations,
ADP operations, and telecommunications. The NIST
site
contains indexing to and/or fulltext of some Federal Information Processing
Standards (FIPS) and
Standards Reference Data material.

National Information Standards Organization
(NISO) is a nonprofit association, accredited
ANSI to identify, develop, maintain, and publish voluntary, consensus based
technical standards for managing information. Most NISO standards and technical
reports are available for FREE download at NISO Press Online

Georgia Tech students and faculty/staff can request copies of reports
by filling out an ILLiad
request form. Please indicate in the ILLiad "Notes" field that
this is a technical report, and mention where it was cited (in the NTIS
database, etc.).

NTIS indexed microfiche
technical reports are organized by the NTIS "Accession Number" or by the
"Report Number."

Selected NTIS database records have an extra "check digit" at the
end of the ProQuest NTIS report number (ignore it). Watch
for irrelevant zeros at the beginning of selected NTIS report numbers (after
agency code).

Microfiche
technical reports indexed by non-NTIS databases might be organized by the
Report Number listed in the "Report Number" field.

Unclassified Georgia Tech research project reports from GTRI
and academic departments. For recent Georgia Tech project reports not
listed in the Catalog,
contact
Records
Management. Recent Georgia Tech project reports are available
electronically or else in Records
Management remote storage. Many older Georgia Tech project reports
are in the General Collection and Archives (two copies). Selected
GT project reports are available in the Catalog.